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TWO FRIDAY', JANUARY' K, ltttf7 T II E B O N N E V I L L E I) A M C U R O N I CF . E Review o f the History - Making Events o f the World ------- By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. Chiang Is Free Again; Soong May Be Premier HIANG KAI - SHEK, generalis simo of China and its dictator, is back in Nanking. Marshal Chang, who held him prisoner in Sianfu for two weeks, also is in the Nationalist capital, avowedly repentant and ready to submit to any punishment. The danger of civil war has passed for the time. The terms on which Chang re leased Chiang have not been made pub lic. The dictator is T. V. Soong sued a statement, directed to his kidnaper, commend ing his change of heart and promis ing to use his influence to obtain leniency for him; and Chang also gave out a statement admitting his grievous fault. These developments would seem to have quieted down the Oriental situation, but there is another mat ter that threatens continued trouble. This is the prospect that Chiang may decide to confine his attention largely to military affairs and to make Dr. T. V. Soong, his brother- in-law, premier. Soong, who used to be minister of finance, stands high among those who favor a strong foreign policy, including re sistance to further encroachments by Japan. Therefore it is easy to see that his elevation to the pre miership would greatly annoy To kio and might easily bring about an open break between the two na tions. Since Marshal Chang is one of those demanding war with Japan, it is rumored that the appointment of Soong was the specified reward for his release of Chiang and sub mission to discipline. C Arthur Brisbane, Noted Journalist, Is Dead r t h u r B r i s b a n e , one of the foremost newspaper editors and writers of the time, and the highest paid, died in his New York residence of coronary thrombosis at the age of seventy-two. The mil lions of Americans who have read faithfully his columns, “ Today” and “ This Week,” mourn his passing. An indefatigable, able and often brilliant worker, he continued his journalistic labors almost to the hour of his death. Born in Buffalo, N. Y., Mr. Bris bane at eighteen joined the staff of the New York Sun ns a reporter. Shortly after he went to Europe for five years to complete his educa tion and became the London corre spondent of the Sun. From that time he advanced steadily in the profession. For the last 39 years he was employed by William R. Hearst. He had been ill for some time but characteristically con cealed his condition from all but members of his family and died in the harness, as he would have wished to do. Funeral services were held in New York and the long list of honorary pallbearers, headed by Vice President Garner, included many of the nation’ s leading men and women. A Financial Status of Farmers Improving MONG the numerous govern mental reports r.t the year’ s close that of M. I. Myers, head of the farm credit administration, is interesting and encouraging, show ing that the outlook for the finan cial status of farmers for 1937 is bright. During 1936 the total loans to farmers by the various FCA agencies were $670,000.000 com pared to $1,060,000,000 in 1935. The decline reflected a decrease in the “ emergency demand” by farmers for assistance from federal agencies, because they “ had no other source of credit after the de pression,” Myers said. “ In the country as a whole, farm A ---- ------- ers apparently had more money for equipment, machinery, farm build ings and repairs in 1936 than in any year since the depression,” Myers said. He added that this should con tinue next year because of in creased purchasing power and the opportunity to get short term cash loans at the present reasonable rates. Air Liner Crashes; Twelve Perish A NOTHER big air liner, the third to meet disaster in a month, crashed against the top of Oak mountain, twenty miles from Bur bank, Calif., and hurtled down into a ravine, a mass of tangled wreck age. The twelve persons aboard were all killed. Three of the nine passengers were women. The plane, a twin motored Boeing, was oper ated by the United Air Lines and was on its way from San Francisco to Burbank. Condition of Pope Pius Is Growing Worse D ROGRESS of the illness of Pope * Pius was followed with great anxiety, for it was admitted at the Vatican that he was steadily grow ing worse and was suffering intense pain. The paralysis was spreading along the left side and arm, and one report said his physicians de clared science could do nothing further for him. After the Christ mas eve radio message which the pontiff insisted on giving he fainted. ■ ■ — .......................— ........... ..... many lines of activity over the pre vious fiscal year, Mr. Roper ad mitted that considerable progress must yet be made to pull the coun try up to the prosperity level of 1928-29. But he asserted a per cap ita volume equivalent to that of the prosperous years would mean a higher aggregate, since the popula tion has increased about 4 per cent in the last seven years. Adolf Hitler Is Defied by Madrid Government HEN the German steamer Palos was captured by Span ish loyalists at Bilbao because it carried war munitions supposedly ; destined for the Franco forces, the Berlin government demanded its release under threat of reprisal. But the Basque authorities defied | Hitler and decided to hold the ves sel. This put up to the fuehrer the decision as to whether he would send to the rebels the 30,000 armed men they have asked, and all Eu rope waited uneasily for hfs an swer. It was believed Hitler would avoid war measures in this crisis, and both Great Britain and France were hopeful that he would preserve peace because they have offered to help his economic and colonial needs in return for nonintervention in the Spanish conflict. However, informed German sources said the Anglo-French note sent Christmas, urging a cessation of German vol unteer enlistments for Spain had come too late, and that Germany will permit and even encourage a continuance of such enlistments. W Hans Von Seeckt, German Soldier, Is Dead EN. HANS VON SEECKT, who Mahatma Gandhi Again died in Berlin at the age of Prodding the British seventy, was one of the really capa ILENT for two years, Mahatma ble commanders in the World war. Gandhi once more comes into While acting as chief of staff to public notice with a speech tending Field Marshall Von Mackensen he to increase the opposition to British was responsible for the great defeat rule in India. He of the Russians at Gorlice, and he spoke at an indus planned the campaigns that resulted trial exposition held in the collapse of Serbia and Ru in connection with mania. After the Von Kapp putsch the annual session of 1920 Van Seeckt was made com of the All-India Na mander - in - chief of the German tional congress, the army which he built into an effi members of which cient force. Later he helped to were already agitat train the Chinese National army. ing in favor of inde pendence. Said the President Wants Revised “ holy man” : Neutrality Law Passed “ Show me t h e Mahatma HE Supreme court having up way. I am prepared Gandhi held, in the Chaco arms em to go back to jail again. I am prepared to be hanged. bargo case, the neutrality powers “ If you do all I want you to do, of the President, Mr. Roosevelt let Lord Linlithgow (British high com it be known that he would ask con missioner for India) will say, ‘I gress to revise the present neutral am wrong. I thought you people ity law to give him broader dis were terrorists, and, if you like, we cretion in his relations with foreign Britishers will go back on the next governments. In other words, the steamer.’ We would then say to “ teeth” which he and the State de Linlithgow and the British, ‘India is partment have always thought the big enough to hold you and more statute lacked. like you.’ Government officials looked upon “ That is my swaraj (self-govern the Supreme court’ s decision as the most sweeping approval of a New ment under native influence).” Jawaharlal Nehru, in his presi Deal law the tribunal has yet giv dential address to the congress, en. They read in it a:i inferential warned the British his countrymen approval of the reciprocal trade would not be “ parties to an imperi treaty program, still untested. alist war.” Panama Canal Tolls System Is Faulty Roper Urges Census ECRETARY OF WAR WOOD- of the Unemployed RING’ S report on the Panama SE C R E TA R Y OF COMMERCE canal shows a deficit of nearly a ^ ROPER in his annual report million dollars in its operation for to the President and congress urged the fiscal year 1936, and admits legislation for a census of the un that the present system of collect employed. It has been estimated ing tolls permits inequalities, ma that such a census would cost be nipulations and endless reductions tween 15 and 25 million dollars and in charges, resulting in losses to would provide jobs for 23,000. Said the United States and unfair advan Mr. Roper: tages to shipping interests. “ Although approximately 6.000,000 The report makes no recom unemployed persons have obtained mendation that congress increase gainful work since March, 1933. and the toll charges to a point where the number of unemployed is stead they will at least pay the interest ily diminishing, the federal govern charges on the capital investment ment must co-operate will, state and of 5464 million dollars and elimi local agencies and industry in mak nate the unfair discrimination ing work available whereby the un against producers of the central employed may provide a livelihood I states in favor of those of the Pa for themselves and their families.” | cific coast and eastern seaboard. Showing in his report increases in However, it does recommend legis G S T S .............................................................................................................................. ... to create an agonizing conflict be tween love and duty. “ The decision often has been tak en by men of honor. And when the power of personal attraction is re inforced by the glamor of the throne the moral obligation is the more urgent for that reason. “ Let us remember that any kind of love which can be in conflict with Inter-American Peace duty is not the love of which the Conference Is Ended gospel speaks.” T'Y ELEGATES to the inter-Amer- The British press and a great ican peace conference in Bue many of the English people are dis nos Aires signed the 69 accords ap gusted with these repeated attacks proved during the sessions and the on Edward by the prelates and conference came to an end. Fare there is a growing danger of a split well congratulatory speeches were in the Church of England. made by Secretary of State Cordell Dispatches from Edward’ s haven Hull, Argentine Foreign Minister in Enzesfeld, Austria, say that he Carlos Saavedra Lamas and the is planning to make Mrs. Simpson head of the Peruvian delegation, the duchess of Windsor in May next, Carlos Concha. They all urged that immediately after her divorce be the peace efforts be continued in comes absolute. Meanwhile he prob the next Pan-American conference, ably will remain at the castle of which will be held in Lima, Peru, Baron Eugene de Rothschild with in 1938. out seeing Mrs. Simpson. There were reports that the duke might take legal action against the Cuba Ousts Gomez and archbishop of York, presumably for Laredo Bru Is President slander. 1Y/ÍIGUEL MARIANO GOMEZ, -*-*-*■ president of Cuba, was on his Baron Nuffield’s Great way out because he defied Col. Ful gencio Batista, the real ruier of the Gift for English Poor republic, by vetoing ARON NUFFIELD, one of Eng the sugar tax bill to land’ s wealthiest industrialists raise funds for the and a generous contributor to phil building of schools anthropic causes, has just donated that would be con $10,000,000 “ to stimulate employ ducted by army of ment in Great Britain’s poverty ficers. Despite píen- 8L stricken depressed areas.” Four ty of warnings, Go- |||- trustees are given full discretion in mez persisted in his use of the sum. Baron Nuffield, who opposition to the . is Sir William Morris, is head of a measure which, he ' vast manufacturing organization in said, would lead to cluding automobile plants, export fascism. So the ^ a companies, a publishing house and house of representa- Gomez affiliated subsidiaries. tives, dominated by Batista, im peached him and he went to trial Decision Favorable to before the senate with the certainty that the decision would be against Labor Relations Board him. He was accused of attempt c c o r d i n g to a decision of the ing to coerce the congress uncon United States court of appeals stitutionally to defeat the tax bill, in New Orleans, the national labor and of mal-administration. It was relations Soard has authority to the first bill of impeachment ever compel employers to bargain collec voted in the history of the Cuban tively with their employees. The republic. tribunal upheld the board's cease Gomez defended himself vigor and desist orders against Agwilines, ously but was resigned to his fate. Inc., which operates the Clyde Mal The prosecution was conducted by lory Steamship lines, in connection three members of the house—Car with the dismissal of seven em los Palma, veteran Republican lead ployees for alleged union action. er; Eduardo Martinez Fraga, Na tionalist, and Felipe Jay, Democrat. Program to Curb Credit Vice President Federico Laredo Bru at once succeeded Gomez auto Inflation Is Announced ECRETARY OF THE TREAS matically. He is a lawyer, sixty- URY MORGENTHAU and one years old and was a colonel in Chairman Marriner Eccles ot the the Cuban war of independence. federal reserve board announced a new program for Oil Concerns and Men curbing credit in flation, and it is Are Again Indicted likely to involve HREE new indictments against $1,000,000,000 of bor major oil companies, oil trade rowings in 1937. publications and individuals were About a billion dol- returned by a federal grand jury in lars worth of gold is If Madison, Wis., in order to avoid de flowing into the lay in the trial of the anti-trust country annually, cases. With few changes the new and if this continues true bills are similar to those re next year, it was turned previously by the 1935 grand said by officials, the jury and contested as invalid on treasury will take S. Eccles grounds that the grand jury was il that amount out of the money mar legally impaneled. ket, to offset the effects of the gold It is understood that the govern influx on domestic credit. ment plans to bring the cases to The plan, which probably was de trial in March. vised by Mr. Eccles, is intended to hold the excess reserves, which are the reserves that member banks de Archbishop of York Joins posit with the federal reserve sys in Attack on Edward tem in excess of legal requirements, r c h b is h o p s of the church of on the same plateau where they are England just can’ t let the duke now. Previously gold flowing into of Windsor and his love affair alone. the country was chalked up as ex The Most Rev. Dr. William Temple, cess reserves upon which an infla archbishop of York and second only tionary credit boom could be built. to the archbishop of Canterbury, took his turn in lambasting the ab dicated king, in a Christmas dioces Former Senator Fess an letter that displayed little of the Dies in Washington Christian spirit. Said the arch IMEON D. FESS. former ia bishop: tor from Ohio and for years a “ It has happened to many a man leader in the “ Old Guard” of the before now to find himself beginning Republican party, died suddenly in to fall in love with another man’ s the Carlton hotel, Washington. He wife. That is a moment of critical had been in retirement from na decision and the right decision is tional politics since 1932 when he that they should cease to meet be was defeated for re-election to the fore the passion is so developed as senate. lation to correct the present system of measurement of vessels, which, it declares, has “ no justification in equity among the several types of snips and may be considered as a form of subsidy to certain types which are able to take advantage of the system.” B A S T A S
